LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He was 76.
The family announced on Simpson’s official X account that he died Wednesday of prostate cancer. He died in Las Vegas, officials there said Thursday.
Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. He was later found liable for the deaths in a separate civil case, and then served nine years in prison on unrelated charges.
Goldman’s father, Fred, and his sister, Kim, released a statement acknowledging that “the hope for true accountability has ended.”
Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University
Big 12 newcomers struggled in debuts. Now they're getting ready for the league to change again
Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon
Bryce Harper homers in return from daughter's birth as Phillies beat Reds 5
Revealed: Brit tourist, 19, subjected to sex attack in Majorca 'was gang
Early voting begins for North Carolina primary runoff races
Cyclones and Wildcats will open 2025 season in the annual college football game in Ireland
'The Apprentice,' about a young Donald Trump, premieres in Cannes
The TikTok law kicks off a new showdown between Beijing and Washington. What's coming next?
I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £400
Legendary British musician teases appearance at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour during singer's London leg